This is an analysis of the poem Ad Manus Puellae that begins with:
I was always a lover of ladies' hands!
Or ever mine heart came here to tryst,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb XcdcX XeaXeXdadaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110100111 110111101 1010111101 0100100101 010010111 10101110101 1010010101 001010100 1110101001 111111101 11100100100 11100110111 110010100 01111010 011010111 1110101101 111110101 010101101 1110101101 010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ad Manus Puellae;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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